Killer’s ‘threat to cash victim’

Learco Chindamo is accused of using Phillip Lawrence's murder as a “badge of honour”

Learco Chindamo had tried to use his previous conviction as a means of frightening David Sexton

Oliver Glasgow

Learco Chindamo, 30, is accused of using it as a “badge of honour” to frighten a victim into handing over money.

He claimed David Sexton, 20, who was on a night out with colleagues, had disrespected him by failing to recognise the killer, it is alleged.

Chindamo, who was just 15 when he stabbed Mr Lawrence outside a school in Maida Vale, west London, had been released from prison just four months earlier after serving 14 years of his life sentence.

He and alleged accomplices Gregory Jananto, and Saeed Akhtar, both 32, deny robbery at Sainsbury’s cashpoint in Chalk Farm Road, north London, last November.

Oliver Glasgow, prosecuting, told Blackfriars Crown Court: “Learco Chindamo, who appeared to regard his conviction as a badge of honour, had tried to use his previous conviction as a means of frightening David Sexton.

“When that did not prove immediately effective Jananto and Akhtar had duly taken their turn into threatening and intimidating him.”